Jesus Speaks Quotes

“Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

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― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

“If we aren’t expecting the Lord to lead and guide us each day, we’ll find ourselves walking past countless burning bushes without noticing.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

“Do you want to hear Jesus speak? Go to where the wounds are. Find wounded people, hurting people, suffering people, and you will find Jesus.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

“Worship is what you do when you’ve heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

“In sum, if Jesus isn’t surprising you, you’ve probably stopped growing spiritually.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

“For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that “Unless I believe, I shall not understand.” —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

“There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice

“The more we are the Presence of Christ for others, the more present we are for Christ to speak to us.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Speaks: Learning to Recognize and Respond to the Lord's Voice